Archives for November 2012

Someone asked me this morning if I could talk a bit about Mixcraft recording software (technically a DAW – digital audio workstation) by Acoustica. Since I am always going on about Reaper (my favorite DAW – digital audio workstation), which is my go-to recording program, he wanted to know if I could sort of compare…… See More

Our mission at Home Brew Audio is to provide you with resources (tutorials, articles, gear reviews, tips and techniques, etc.) to help you achieve your goals and dreams. For some, that will be recording their music so they they can release their own songs or CDs, record demos and auditions, etc. For others, it might…… See More

WinkSound put out a video that offers an unusual tip for using compression on a vocal in a mix. It refers to some common compressor controls the I go over in my recent post on how to use Reaper’s built-in compressor plugin called ReaComp. See that article here: Vocal Compression Using Reaper’s ReaComp Effect Plugin.…… See More

Fresh off the Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals on Pro Audio equipment, B&H Pro Audio just announced their Holiday 2012 promotions – The Gift of Sound Lasts Forever. Pearstone OLM-10 Omnidirectional Lavalier Microphone Lavalier (lapel) microphones make the audio quality on your videos MUCH better than what you get when you rely only on…… See More

We were watching a commercial (kinda rare these days with the DVR and all) last night, the new Windows Phone ad, and saw a guy at a train station wearing some really slick looking yellow headphones with square ear cups. So off to the web went my wife (research girl) to find out what they…… See More